It doesn't feel like a "city" but it has all the downsides of a city X100. I've had more crazy "oh shit, this feels dangerous" situations than I have anywhere else - I've gotten to paranoid about going anywhere by myself after dark, people here are DEFINITELY rude... I lived in Manhattan for 6 months and people were…

People here keep telling me that I will grow to love it and that I'm just not used to big cities... but this is coming off of living in urban Dallas for three years. I've been physically assaulted by strangers twice in the 6 months I've lived here (nothing serious - like the more memorable time was a woman smacking my…

In one of my trips to the national zoo, I walked by one of the red pandas during feeding time... the keeper had brought out grapes and chunks of melon as a snack and he kept following her around, tapping on her leg asking for more. So adorable.

Yeah, haha, I know how it is... but it was just like... so cool and unique then - that's why people flocked to it... but when people began flocking there it just kind of started becoming like everywhere else? I'd rather live in boring old Dallas than be reminded of how my childhood and early adulthood are fading away.…

I'm a native of Austin living elsewhere. It feels SUPER phony to me now, I kind of hate going back except to eat at my favorite restaurants.

The last few years (2006 onwards) my goal was to NOT BE THERE at all. But, I also kind of loathe ACL recently... thankfully I'm too far away for it to matter now. The only festival I ALWAYS loved was Fun Fun Fun.

I'm a native Austinite and I get the EXACT same feeling. Austin went from like... a not so huge majorly quirky place to some hallow shell of what it used to be populated by former Brooklynites and various hipster wannabes from across the country. I'm just really happy my neighborhood is more or less unchanged since…

The Texas law does not explicitly require a transvaginal ultrasound - if memory serves me correctly, it only would in cases prior to the time when a fetus can be visualized transabdominally. The clinics in Texas I have volunteered at already have these rules in place as it allows for the best possible medical care.…

Yep, I generally avoid making commentary beyond the awareness that something is just wrong... but if the woman says she's bipolar - just accept it unless you have some compelling evidence otherwise.

You can see proposed revisions for the DSM-V online, but I do not believe the full versions are publicly available. Generally diagnostic criteria for disorders listed on wikipedia (recognized by the DSM such as Bipolar I and Bipolar II disorder) are those from the DSM-IVR. Otherwise, you're stuck going to the library…

Hey, everyone! If you want to play armchair diagnosis - why don't you read the DSM before deciding to say what does and does not fit into the spectrum of bipolar disorders before ranting?

Do you know which bipolar disorder you have? I or II? because a key feature of mania vs. hypomania is that it causes significant impairment to your day to day life. Bipolar II means you've never experienced a full manic phase - which can be extremely dangerous. Mania is noted as having psychotic symptoms - whereas…

Racism has it's subtle differences in practices there, that's for sure... but it still exists and they damn near have problems with the same groups the US does plus some.

Random: why would the Italians care about anything they used to throw at gypsies? They're still absolutely horrible to Roma. The curry stereotype TOTALLY exists here and was an instance of "whoa too far" on that show... parts of the US have very large Indian and Pakistani populations (the most common last name in my…

At least personally, I associate it with physical intimidation and my response to it is generally to get away ASAP. There are times and ways of paying compliments that aren't problematic - but there are situations where it's not okay. It's dark and I'm walking alone? Leave me be. You want to say something obscene? Not…

"Delivery of a badly burned infant" is pretty clearly misinformation.

I thought it was fear and hate was a product of it.

They will, research that has been retracted in part or in whole is often erroneously cited even within academia by individuals that are well meaning.

Spokeo isn't terribly accurate... it lists my boyfriend as married which he most certainly is not nor has ever been.

IDK if I'm lucky or what... but Spokeo has absolutely no information about me freely available. No listings for me in any of the cities I've lived in, apparently you can get my name if you look up my cell phone number/are willing to pay.